The great Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca died on August 19, 1936 at the age of 38. He was a symbol of political repression and fascist tyranny.
Lorca was born in 1898 near Granada, Spain, where after Madrid and the United States he worked as a director at the La Barca Theater, with whom he traveled all over Spain, presenting domestic classics and engaged plays. When the Spanish Civil War broke out, he was arrested and shot, and his body was dumped in one of the many unmarked tombs. Franco's government tried to destroy the memory of this great writer by destroying his books, and it was forbidden to mention his name. During the 1930s, Lorca met the Chilean poet Pablo Nerudam, and the two giants soon became good friends. Regarding Lorca's assassination, Neruda said: "Spanish fascists killed their best poet"
